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Very interesting course. Explained concepts I'd heard of but didn't really know about. It is a foundation course for a specialization, it's not enough by itself but very good as a foundation course.
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It is a comprehensive introduction to big data which covers significant components with enough content that can be absorb at this stage. A very good kick-start and excited for the next course ahead.
By David R D N
•Oct 6, 2016
The course material is overall very good and easy to understand, although a bit abstract at certain points (mostly when it comes to technical things like what MapReduce consists of and what Programming Models are). Regardless, the instructors do a great job of explaining the concepts. Great course overall
By Andrew O
•Jun 8, 2020
Getting the right computer that can run the virtual machine is a must. After that, there were still all kinds of error messages due to various reasons. The discussion forum on this topic was helpful to a certain extent but can be improved. Running the virtual machine was quite straightforward after that
By Emerald M
•Feb 11, 2018
I loved this courses real life examples of the materials being discussed. It not only held my attention but also gave me a better understanding of how I might use it. The materials took what could be very complex realities and broke them down to 'bite size' pieces. OVERALL: GREAT COURSE FOR BEGINNERS.
By Hassaan A
•May 25, 2018
it was my first experience of an online course . the course was very suitable for the beginners as describes and was very easy to learn . Just had a little problem in starting the cloudera virtual machine by following the given steps in the course . coursera is very good learning platform . Thank You.
By Agatha H
•Apr 24, 2017
I'm grateful to the instructor(s). However, when I turned on closed caption to get used to the accent, the CC text covered part of the slide information. Overall, this is a good course to take. I'm glad I took it. Also, I was hoping that there's a clear instruction of Cloudera Quick Start on Linux.
By Claudia S
•Jan 26, 2018
Overall the course was excellent.
A minor annoying issue was that the volume level is not constant between videos, so using earplugs was not an option, if you had the chance to take various lessons in a row.
In the end, I had to turn off the volume and use the subtitles instead, to avoid ear damage.
By Luke S
•Dec 25, 2016
This is a great introduction to the concepts of Big Data. Compared to whats available online, this course does a great job of digging into the components and definition of big data vs just diving in with code examples. Well worth it for anyone trying to get a holistic understanding of big data.
By Amit K Y
•Jul 7, 2020
It's good as an introductory course! A lot of topics are covered briefly and excellent examples are presented to help people understand the concepts! There is a need to update the "Hadoop hands-on training" examples as cloudera has stopped the support for virtual VMs mentioned in the course.
By sachin d
•Mar 27, 2017
Fantastic course and all concepts were very well explained. Interesting quiz at end of every section that tests understanding of the topic and the glimpse of Hadoop in the final section is the best part of the entire course.
Hadoop fs -Thanks Ilkay Altintas and Amarnath Gupta :)
By Serge L N
•Aug 31, 2017
The content is good, however the presenters just read a text which makes it a bit boring to follow. Due to the style of presentation I find it rather distracting that the presenters are embedded in the presentation.
Further sources for additional reading would be great a well.
By Claudia T G
•Aug 7, 2019
Great contents, and the way they explain them makes it easier to understand. If I had to mention an area, it would be to make the slides a bit more visual (the strong blue color sometimes made it more difficult to watch a few videos at a time). But overall great course!!
By Reynaldo A
•Nov 22, 2016
Dr Altintas is an excellent presenter and very thorough. I would have enjoyed more practical exercises instead of mainly theory videos. The ones done with Hadoop in the last week were very enjoyable. I also enjoyed Dr Gupta's videos as well. Excellent intro to Big Data.
By Maithreyi S
•Apr 22, 2017
I enjoyed this introductory course because it really provided the scope for this area of study and helped chart the course for the rest of the specialization as I move forward. Excited to move on through to the next course armed with what I have learned in this one!
By Shubham S
•Jul 2, 2017
Nice course with proper foundation of big data. Instructors were describing things nicely. It would be more better if you add some more reading material of each content so that something which is not described in detail then we can go through it. Thanks coursera.
By Shababa B
•Sep 27, 2020
Does a good job of providing foundational information about Big Data and the Hadoop ecosystem. The end of the course has a fairly easy hands on MapReduce exercise. I wish it had more exercises but I assume the other courses in the specialization would offer this.
By David M
•Sep 4, 2020
El hecho de que mis compañeros revisen el trabajo de otros es muy poco objetivo, desde mi experiencia personal mandé un trabajo bien hecho que lo calificaron con un 40%, luego reenvié el mismo y obtuve un 100%, la calificación que merecía desde un inicio.
By Ganesh T
•Aug 1, 2019
Overall experience was good with learning module. the objective to the course has meet the expectations.
Suggestion: Please check once the question module, which showing wrong with different answer combinations.
Rest all as per me up to the mark. Thank you
By Mustafa M
•Apr 7, 2020
A good course for beginners to understand the basics of BigData and the history behind it. Learned basic definitions and understanding of terms used in BigData. Hand on practice to install VirtualBox and run hadoop basic commands in Cloudera Sandbox.
By Tariq A
•Dec 27, 2019
I believe that I developed an understanding of the Introduction to big data. This is what I was interested in achieving. This is the first course I have taken from Online-learning.com and I feel that I am achieving a good understanding of big data.
By Oscar J M T
•Sep 21, 2018
Creo que es un curso que explica muy bien las bases de Big Data y analítica. En ciertos momentos es demasiado básico pero es entendible pues esta orientado a muchos perfiles, no necesariamente experimentados en desarrollo de aplicaciones o analítica.
By Jaime R
•Jun 4, 2021
For folks in industry, the first 2 weeks were painfully/needlessly slow. All material one knows, and quiz answers seemed a bit arbitrary at times. Week 3 was VERY useful material, the meat of gaps in my knowledge that I'm trying to address.
By Shreya V
•Jul 23, 2017
This course gives the student an amazing exposure to the world of Big Data and in a very understandable way creates the concepts. The assignments really help in making the concepts stronger and give another level of confidence to the student.
By Monika B
•Jan 18, 2017
Great introduction course. The pace is slow enough that a person without technical background should be able to follow it. However as you are not restricted to only do the current week task its also great for someone who had some experience.
By Eugene V
•Feb 16, 2017
Good INTRODUCTION , an understanding of data management will help digest alot of it. But very simple and elegant course with only simple concepts to grasp which in reality covers big data pretty well! Excited to take the rest of the courses
By Chris V
•Oct 12, 2016
If you're unfamiliar with how big data is processed and what makes it unique from "regular" data, this is a good introductory course. It provides sufficient detail to understand the key concepts, programs, and methodologies around Big Data.